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Don't work here unless you need to get your foot in the door as a server. If you're an experienced server, please take your skills elsewhere.
- You are doing everything, serving, bussing, bartending, food running, and hosting.
- You are the plumber, trust me, you will be unclogging the toilets and scrubbing them often.
- They require you to take tests often, and if you don't get 100% you will be removed from tips.
- It's tip pool, and your coworkers will most likely be lazy and/or drunk.
- Favoritism at its finest
- The big dogs come by quarterly to inspect and test the workers, which includes in-person secret shoppers and phone calls. Which, if you fail it will lead to suspension or termination
- There are monthly mandatory meetings and if you miss that even for a reasonable cause like such as being scheduled at another job, you will be suspended and fired. 
- The side work is crazy, the company is essentially using you to deep clean their restaurant. You're deep cleaning floors, walls, fridges, bathrooms, picture frames, etc.

I have served for over 8 years this had to be one of the most miserable jobs ever
You don’t leave with what you earned that night there was a tip pool which means servers can be lazy and still leave with the same amount you leave with (so you think) on top of all of those cons one thing I can not put up with are liars and cheaters many of the team leads would still from the tips because they are in charge of all cash and credit card transactions 
There is abasoutley no team work
No communication at all between staff and management 
If you have a any issues you can not go to management because they have no common sense at being problem solvers if anything they add to the problems 
As humans we make mistakes if you rang in anything wrong you had to pay for (sorry for being human)
When there is problem with a table management doesn’t listen to they listen to the guest and conclude that it’s automatically you fault no explanation 
Don’t even waste your time with this company 
I hated my entire life working here 
THANK GOD ITS OVER

Pros
-Good work environment
-co workers are friendly and fun
-you get paid on time and a normal amount (soon to be minimum wage)
-free employee drinks


Cons 
-Management is beyond horrible 
-managment uses bait and switch tactics
(Promises of raise but never put it through)
-nothing is ever good enough you can clean the whole kitchen and not get one ounce of praise 
-the equipment they supply are horrible 
-the kitchen is ran by someone who doesn't know anything about the kitchen 
-owner keeps his face glued to the camera so it makes the work environment awkward and uncomfortable
-all the false promises of promoting and giving raises fall through so moral is low and don't wanna go the extra mile 
-cant move up 
-will leave out bonuses and hours on your check
-give you written tests for a pay raise if you pass they still dont give you a raise

I can go on and on, All in all its a bad job if you do apply i would be here temporary...... I wouldn't stay long it's not worth the pay.

Working at Hot N Juicy Crawfish was the most challenging, interesting four years of my life. Every day in the restaurant industry is different. As I grew with the company from server to team lead to business administrator to HR specialist, I watched HNJ grow as well. Since I started, HNJ has almost doubled its number of locations. However, the dedication to creating a family oriented, team oriented environment has remained the same. Seeing the owners' and the VP of Operation's daily commitment to each individual location and staff, has made working at HNJ truly enjoyable. This workplace culture, combined with the challenging nature of the job and high expectations made my job truly rewarding. If you are interested in any position in the restaurant industry (server, kitchen staff, or management), this is a great place to work!

As a hostess at Hot N Juicy, I was responsible for welcoming every guest with a positive attitude and making sure their dining experience started smoothly. I managed reservations, walk-ins, and seating charts to keep the flow of the restaurant organized, even during peak hours. My role required strong multitasking—greeting guests, updating waitlists, answering phones, and communicating with servers and management to ensure tables were ready and customers felt taken care of. I learned how to stay calm and professional in a high-volume, fast-paced environment while maintaining excellent customer service. This position strengthened my ability to problem-solve quickly, adapt to different situations, and support both guests and team members. Working at Hot N Juicy gave me valuable experience in hospitality, teamwork, and communication, and helped me develop skills I can apply to any customer-focused role in the future.

worked there and made really good money in tips , so if you dont care about friendly coworkers and bad management , this is your place . otherwise , coworkers are almost unbearable - only talking abt past coworkers and themselves making it hard to even continue the conversation . 1-2 are friendly and slightly easier to converse with , but the rest are so full of themselves and complain the entire shift its exhausting . to top it off , manager has extreme favoritism and doesnt know how to divide shifts among workers equally . also , good luck getting a day off if youre not a favorite . favorited coworkers could call off last minute and nothing would happened . coworkers and managers are so hard to get along with that the money just wasnt worth it ( btw youre gonna deal with a lot of snappy / rude customers who dont tip )  . 

if you work here you’ll be miserable. constantly understaffed due to everyone quitting from how horrible it is, and stressed having to do bussing, food running and server, tips all at once with absolute no help from management. the only thing managers do is stand and use their phone and eat a overpriced seafood boil bag. they don’t care if you received your break or not, the only thing they feed you for free is rice. You will be alone and the only server in the morning, if anything happens, you’re on your own. The day you finally quit, managers will be petty towards you, by lowering your tips, leaving the restaurant at night without telling the servers and with open tables knowing the servers need a manger to void out tabs, ignoring and disrespecting you. Trust me, for your mental health, there’s so many better opportunities other than HnJ and to have better respect for yourself. 

ne big problem with the lab was the lack of standard procedures for many tasks. I would be told how to do something, but the procedure was rarely documented at all. This came to a head when I was ordered to clean up the substance – there was no procedure in place at all for handling cleaning up an unknown chemical.

If you are charged with a new task that will be done regularly, take notes on the procedure you follow, document it, and share the documentation. This will virtually never be a bad thing. Even if you’re the only person doing it, it can help demonstrate how you’re making the workplace better, but the best result is that it gets others to document things. If there had been documentation on how to clean up the mess, I could have easily turned to that documentation. Instead, I was forced to make a choice and refuse to clean it up – and that resulted in my firing.

worst job ever!!!



It is a fast paced environment, the kitchen can be chaotic and messy. There is a very difficult understanding between FOH and BOH. There is a lack of food safety as well as food handling, training and staff familiarization with their menu/food items.
It’s a good place to learn how to work under pressure and manage stressful conditions, but it can put pressure on the staff if not able to handle it. Management is not very helpful in these situations.

Does not pay you over time. (even if they ask you to work overtime you will never get paid for it). No set rules. Mangers will turn servers on one another. High manger turn over, so rules are constantly changing. They force you to pay for errors rang into p.o.s. Or will make you pay for tabs that guest literally will run out on. Lead servers will try and help the company by making manger decisions to then be reprimanded about the decision making. So there is no true positive leadership. company will take advantage of any  experience you may know. You will never get any gratitude or proper pay for it. The servers that work there are the only good thing there.

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